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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 11
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Athaliah destroys the royal seed in Judah and reigns herself in Judah—Joash preserved and crowned king when seven years old—Jehoiada the priest destroys house of Baal.
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And</span> when <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 22: 10 (10-12).">Athaliah</a> the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
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But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons <i>which were</i> slain; and they hid him, <i>even</i> him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
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And he was with her hid in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> six years.  And Athaliah did reign over the land.
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&#182; And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and made a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 23: 1.">covenant</a> with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and shewed them the king’s son.
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And he commanded them, saying, This <i>is</i> the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 9: 25.">sabbath</a> shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;
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And a third part <i>shall be</i> at the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 23: 5.">gate</a> of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
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And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> about the king.
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And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
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And the captains over the hundreds did according to all <i>things</i> that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
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And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 8: 7.">shields</a>, that <i>were</i> in the temple of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, <i>along</i> by the altar and the temple.
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And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and <i>gave him</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 25: 16.">testimony</a>; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/12b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB May the king live!.">God</a> save the king.
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&#182; And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard <i>and</i> of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 3.">pillar</a>, as the manner <i>was,</i> and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
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But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword.  For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/11/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 23: 15.">horses</a> came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.
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&#182; And Jehoiada made a covenant between the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> and the king and the people, that they should be the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s people; between the king also and the people.
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And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.  And the priest appointed officers over the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house.  And he sat on the throne of the kings.
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And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword <i>beside</i> the king’s house.
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Seven years old <i>was</i> Jehoash when he began to reign.
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